The circuits below are designed to strengthen your entire body, specifically your glutes and core. It is vital that you use your mind to properly engage and contract the muscles you are working, especially your core and glutes. To successfully work a muscle group, you have to feel it working. You need to focus your mind on contracting and
Whether you inherited it from your mother or losing weight has left you with a flat and tiny tush, you secretly may be hoping for a fuller, shapelier bottom. It's time to step up your strength-training routine. Just like hiking and running hills, these 11 moves will build, sculpt, and lift your glutes in no time! Glute workouts may once
Lunges are right up there with squats on the list of Best Exercises You Can Do. Not only does the lunge work your entire lower body and core, but it's also super functional—which is just a fancy way of saying that it helps you do everyday movements comfortably. You can do lunges with just your body weight, or you can easily make lunges
Everyone wants shapely calves, but not many of us regularly train our lower legs. (With the glutes, hamstrings and quads monopolizing so much of our focus, who has time?) But consciously working the ankles and calf muscles should be part of every smart woman’s training plan, and in fact, neglecting your lower legs could take you out of the training game
Although there’s a lot to be said for the power of dark denim jeans or a well-fitting midi skirt, wouldn’t it be nice to stride around, from the bedroom to the beach, with nothing but love in our hearts for our thighs? Well, if you follow our workout for thigh exercises, you will find yourself feeling that way in no
If you spend most of your time sitting, it’s likely that your glutes are weak or underworked. Having weak glutes puts you at risk for developing gluteal amnesia, which is when your glutes forget how to function properly. If your glutes aren’t working properly, it can affect your ability to move and cause knee and lower back pain. It’s more important
As you age, your metabolism changes and it becomes difficult to lose weight. Even if you follow a healthy diet plan and adopt good lifestyle habits, you follow the right sleep pattern and drink water adequately, your weight tends to remain stagnant. To get your body in shape and shed extra pounds from your body you will need to follow
Your glutes and abs muscles might not seem like they work together, but doing a combo butt and abs workout can be a strategic way to work your muscles efficiently and safely. The body works together, all the muscles as a team. Having strong glutes will help to strengthen your entire posterior chain (the muscles along the back of your body), including your low back,
Most women count their repetitions at a constant, steady pace. But to spark a change in your body’s composition, you need to shock your muscles with new training methods. That’s where these series of numbers come in: they each represent time in seconds and provide a “tempo map” for your reps. Take the series 1–2–1 in relation to a leg
Who needs a gym when there’s the living room floor? Bodyweight exercises are simple, effective ways to improve balance, flexibility, and strength without gym machines or equipment. You can do all these bodyweight exercises at home. From legs and shoulders to chest and abs, we’ve covered every part of your body that can get stronger with body resistance alone. Bodyweight
